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Avolution ABACUS vs. BiZZdesign HoriZZon (Enterprise Studio)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avolution ABACUS
Score 9.3 out of 10
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ABACUS, from Australian software company Avolution, is an enterprise architecture modeling tool.N/A
BIZZdesign HoriZZon
Score 8.0 out of 10
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BiZZdesign HoriZZon from Dutch company BiZZdesign is an enterprise architecture management platform. It replaces the former BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Avolution ABACUSBiZZdesign HoriZZon (Enterprise Studio)
Considered Both Products
Avolution ABACUS
Chose Avolution ABACUS
- Microsoft tools are manual and data is not centralized
- Aris is not as flexible as Avolution
- LeanIX is close, but lacks business content/accelerators that Avolution provides
- LeanIX is in the cloud and multi-user
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng
Enterprise Architect
Chose Avolution ABACUS
More flexible and user friendly interface.
Better customization enables organisations to grow based on their maturity and requirements
Avolution is highly rated on Gartner and Forrester reviews
BIZZdesign HoriZZon

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User Ratings
Avolution ABACUSBiZZdesign HoriZZon (Enterprise Studio)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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User Testimonials
Avolution ABACUSBiZZdesign HoriZZon (Enterprise Studio)
Likelihood to Recommend
- Very easy to use for Enterprise Architects
- Accelerates time to value
- integrates with Avolution Enterprise
- Integrates with ITSM solutions
- import/export functionality is simple & flexible
Darin Paton | TrustRadius Reviewer
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I would not recommend using BizzDesign. For Enterprise Architecture, like business strategy, business process modelling, IT architectures there are better and in most cases less expensive tools.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
  • Modelling the Enterprise through the creation of catalogues and matrices of Enterprise information
  • Creation of views to supports strategy execution and decision making
  • Central storage of Enterprise information
  • Management of a agreed meta model
Darin Paton | TrustRadius Reviewer
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  • Archimate support is as defined in the Archimate standard.
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Cons
  • More standard connectors for integration with other modeling tools could be beneficial for companies having legacy tools/fragmented toolsets.
  • Better automated diagramming features would be useful.
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng
Enterprise Architect
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  • Usability of the tool is quite bad.
  • It is tedious to even create simple reports. Created reports are published as image, so basically not usable for end users.
  • Support of other model languages than Archimate is less supported. In ERD you do not even have a layout functionality.
  • Any state of the art integrations like cloud stencils are missing.
  • Import/export with Excel is tedious and SQL import not fully implemented.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
Highly knowledgable team and fast response times
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng
Enterprise Architect
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Support for simple questions is okay. For some more elaborate things, also tool errors, you may not get even an answer for months/more than a year.
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Anonymous
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More flexible and user friendly interface. Better customization enables organisations to grow based on their maturity and requirements Avolution is highly rated on Gartner and Forrester reviews
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng
Enterprise Architect
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Return on Investment
  • Enabled rationalization of IT portfolio to save costs
  • Supporting of strategic planning of EA and IT initiatives
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nolan Victor Pillay, Pr. Eng
Enterprise Architect
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  • We were not able to get much benefit from the tool. Some users and partner teams meanwhile moved on to other software.
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Anonymous
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